HBO’s Newsroom started as an interesting show on what an
imaginary news program would be like. I
really liked the pilot. By the third
episode it was unwatchable and yet another line of attacks on conservative
politics. I guess I should have known
what was coming but I hoped they would be more informed, more balanced, or just
plain more interesting. Instead, we get
the same old trope that the tea party is controlled by the Koch brothers. Each show is shriller, less interesting, and
more liberal. It got so bad by the third
episode that they decided there is no use debating since they know better. This is what Thomas Sowell calls the liberal
vision of the anointed and makes it unwatchable. I wonder how much of the audience is
conservative and when the others will stop watching. My limit was the third episode.
You expected something different from the same network that treats us to Bill Maher's bitter, hateful attacks on anybody and anything not pre-certified by moveon.org?
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